This moment...the house of God.

Written by a friend of mine but a perfect prayer for me.....

Lord, I really don't want more time; I just want enough time. Time to breathe deep and to see real and time to laugh long, time to give You glory and rest deep and sing joy, and just enough time in a day not to feel hounded, pressed, driven, or wild to get it all done - yesterday.

I have discovered that I slow the torrent of time by being all here and giving thanks. I only live the full life when I live fully in the moment (which is You). And when I'm always looking for the next glimpse of glory, I slow and enter, and time slows. I weigh down this moment in time with attention full, and the whole of time's river slows, slows, slows. And blind eyes see. It's this sleuthing for the glory that slows a life gloriously. In this space of time I am attentive, aware, accepting the whole of the moment, weighing it down with me all here. Full attention fills the empty ache.

Is this thanksgiving the way to that elusive fullest life, the one that lives in the moment?

This is where God is. In the present. I AM - His very name. I want to take my shoes off. I AM, so full of the weight of the present, that time's river slows to a still... and God Himself is timeless. I hardly breathe and I may never wear shoes again. Make every moment a cathedral giving glory... I am Jacob and the Lord is in this place and I was not aware of it (Gen28:16).

Thanks makes a place for God. I take my vows: I will not desecrate this moment with ignorant hurry or sordid ingratitude. I will be Jacob, and I will name this moment the "house of God" (Gen 28:19).

When I am present, I meet I AM, the very presence of a present God. In His embrace, time loses all sense of speed and stress and space and stands so still and... holy. Here is the place I can love Him. This moment. I have time for God.

I hunger to taste the full life.

God.